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Level Three Leadership (2nd Edition)

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At first glance, this might seem to be yet another standard text about management and employee relations. You'll be pleased to find that, instead, author James G. Clawson has written an engaging book about history, human psychology and the modern workplace. He offers intriguing insights, strong research and even a New Age wrinkle or two, with a few well-placed comments about meditation, inner vision and martial arts. Despite a few redundant passages, this is not a dry HR manual, though it provides helpful professional charts and summaries. With its you-need-to-know-this-now tone and its comments about gravity, magic and inner vision, the book is actually fun. We recommend it to managers at all tiers, to employees seeking advancement and to MBA candidates.

This book summarizes current, practical knowledge about what it means to be an effective leader. Leadership implies three major thrusts: strategic thinking (leadership for what?), relationship building (leading whom?) and designing an action context (organizational design issues) all discussed in the text. Further, the book asserts that leaders who target Level Three (core values, assumptions, beliefs, and expectations or VABEs) can be more effective and powerful than those who, traditionally, target Level One (focus on behavior) and Level Two (conscious thinking). The book also introduces the notion of INFOCRACIES, or organizations that are increasingly being redesigned by the information systems within them and presents a framework for thinking about developing deeper influence. As the author, clearly I'm biased, AND I've found that this approach has worked very well with many clients and executive education programs. The book was intended as a dense summary for executive education audiences in short, week long seminars. If you have suggestions, I'm eager to hear.

This is a book on leadership but seems to just borrow leadership ideas from others. Nothing really new in the book. The author draws some simplistic diagrams that do not really do much to add to the concepts of leadership. This text was required for the master's class I am taking but there are bobetter texts that could have been used. Don't expect anything new or exciting out the book. I was reading an article about Chik-fil-A's development of a leadership program. In the article, Mark Miller, VP for Training and Development, mentioned that the Chik-fil-A staff working on the leadership development program read approximately 200 books on leadership. This would not have been one of the ones I would have recommended for that list.

This book is recommended for those who want to integrate a MBA.
Very practical, clear and simple.

I purchased this book because it was a required text for my organizational leadership class. I found it to be very practical and useful.

This product was missing approximately 20 pages which were torn out. These pages were of exercises, necessary to the course I purchased the book for. I was inconvienenced and scolded by the professor multiple times for not having the materials to complete the assignments. I would not recommend this seller, as they clearly do not check their products before listing for sale.

Exceptional service received from seller. Received book timely for my course in impeccable condition. Thanks.